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A 39-year-old man found dead after driving off the road in Central Hawke's Bay may have been distracted by a puppy, his mother says.

Several hundred litres of tar leaked on to State Highway 1 after a Blacktop Construction tar tank-trailer overturned on State Highway 1 yesterday morning, after the truck towing it towards Clinton briefly left the road.

A 13-day-old premature baby is an orphan after her parents were killed in a car crash while driving home from visiting her in a hospital.

A man killed when his truck crashed and rolled south of Auckland yesterday has been named.

A man was taken by ambulance to Lakes District Hospital after he took a fall over the handlebars of his bicycle shortly before 9am yesterday.

The driver of a car travelling along Lower Shotover Rd in Queenstown was lucky to escape without injury after hitting a fallen tree branch early yesterday.

Two Dunedin flatmates had an unexpected dinner guest on Monday night when a woman drove through their living-room window.